ESU #17 AdvancED - Aug 7 2013

Accreditation Report and Status
- Follow-up: newspaper article and/or "AdvancED Accredited" on Back-to-School Announcement
- Discuss next steps for Required Actions
Annual Report - Stephanie Bernthal will share results of the staff survey (Top 3 news items from 2012-2013), the design for the Annual Report, and will ask for input
- Online Report in booklet form and PDF version
- Would like input from staff members on format and content
- Ideas from each department on previous year activities and information
Evaluation Discussion: What should the process look like and what do we want it to do for us? We need to have a vision in place to share with staff on Aug 12.
Review input from "What 1 thing can we do to improve this Standard?" and discuss next steps.
- Review information from External Review Report to guide next steps.
Opening Day Meeting
- Addition of new member to Leadership Team to replace Geraldine
- Continued refinement of Job Descriptions
- Evaluation Process
  - View examples of past evaluation templates used by ESU 17
    - What changes need to be made
    - Same evaluation for all staff members for continuity
    - Do we involve the districts that individual staff members are contracted with?
    - Evaluation format has to be approved by NDE
  - Departments - Programs - Individuals
    - Define individual, program and service evaluations
      - Not to be confused with Student or Core Services
      - Identify programs that are going to be evaluated
      - Divide into groups to discuss evaluation process
        Student Services - small groups
        Core Services as a group
  - Surveys (all school stakeholders) - Reviews (all school administrators) - Evaluations (agency administrator)
- Required Actions and Standards activities (identification and action)
Set next Leadership Team Meetings: Oct/Nov and Jan/Feb